Anya Ventura visits the studio of Rhode Island stone carver Tracy Mahaffey.

Get a peek inside the studio of Maralie Armstrong (RISD MFA 2009, Digital + Media) as she creates a score inspired by the Nō robes in the RISD Museum collection.

This rare example of Gorham's "Mythologique" flatware service was purposefully left unfinished as they are samples, combining elaborate hand-worked detail with mechanized brute force.

In this series, RISD Museum curator Dominic Molon considers the importance and setting of the studio, and calls on Rhode Island artists.

In this series, RISD Museum curator Dominic Molon considers the importance and setting of the studio, and calls on Rhode Island artists.

A look at the graphic-design inspiration and challenges behind Circus.

Drawing in a museum is a way of slowing down and experiencing artwork on a nonverbal level.

Luca Cambiaso used iron gall ink and a quill pen to create this drawing in about 1570. RISD professor Andrew Raftery walks us through the making of iron gall ink and a quill pen, and explains how he copied Cambiaso's drawing.

Composer Shawn Greenlee's experimental sound work Substitutions is inspired by the Chinese lithophone in the RISD Museum's Asian art collection

In earlier decades, retouching (or “inpainting”) using reversible painting materials would have been employed where compositional elements were missing.

Curator Maureen C. O'Brien discusses American drawings and watercolors in the RISD Museum collection

"Raid the Database with Heather Leigh McPherson" is the third installment in an ongoing project in which artists bring new curatorial perspectives to the museum's extensive collections.

Albert Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany, but came to the United States with his family in 1832 and settled with them in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Eastman Johnson was raised in Maine in a family of eight children, and

William Stanley Haseltine first studied painting in Philadelphia with t

Childe Hassam, a successful young book and magazine illustrator, made h

Plowing on Sunday, from about 1934

Reginald Marsh, the son of American artists Fred Dana Marsh and Alice R

Five works on paper in the RISD Museum’s collection follow the arc of C

Over the course of his artistic life, Marsden Hartley sought unmediated

In December of 2016 the RISD Museum needed to deinstall its European Galleries in order to renovate them.

"Raid the Database with Natalja Kent" is the first installment in an ongoing project in which artists bring new curatorial perspectives to the museum's extensive collections.

The Museum recently acquired *Huevos de Los Angeles*, a collaborative work by two RISD alumni, Adam Silverman and David Wiseman. Here the artists describe how they created "eggs" to rival the most coveted variety.

Architects have been recognized as key figures in furniture design since the late 19th century, although they've certainly been designing furniture for far longer. But what compels them to do so?